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The Open Space Art Gallery is now open in a space once occupied by South Moon Under, at 15000 Potomac Town Center Place near Wegmans. The Prince William Arts Council, in conjunction with the Prince William Art Society, is maintaining the space.

“Stonebridge and JBG Smith [owners of Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center] were happy to have Prince William County Arts Council utilize the space,” spokeswoman Anastasia Pordorski told Potomac Local News. “It had been sitting vacant since the prior tenant vacated in early 2020.”


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Police increased the reward for a suspect in a double shooting at a Prince William County school.

Investigators are still searching for Isaiah Malik Gordon, 23, of the 16000 block of Harwood Oaks Court in Woodbridge. He’s suspected of shooting two men, a 24-year-old and a 33-year-old, during a youth football game played on a field at Benton Middle School near Dale City on Sunday, May 1.


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The crash occurred at about 4:50 p.m. at Hoadly Road and Galveston Court, near a Harris Teeter grocery store. One of the victims was taken to Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center in Woodbridge, and the other UVA Prince William Medical Center in Manassas.

According to initial reports, the victims suffered serious injuries. What led to the crash is unknown.


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A portion of Woodbridge sounded like a firing range this afternoon.

Just after 4 p.m., shots rang out at the Woodbridge Station Apartments near Fred M. Lynn Middle School. The shooting prompted a massive police response in the area and a lockdown of the middle school for about 30 minutes.


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A man who stole a woman’s purse pulled a knife on the victim when she tried to chase him down.

At 9:58 p.m. Saturday, April 23, officers went to the Bahama Breeze, at 2714 Potomac Mills Circle in Woodbridge to investigate a robbery. Police said a teenager entered the restaurant and grabbed a purse that was hanging on the wall near the hostess stand and fled.


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[Updated Friday, April 22] A woman is facing assault and battery, and trespassing charges after an incident at John Jenkins Elementary School.

Two school staff members, a 55-year-old and 31-year-old woman, approached the woman and asked her why she was in the school. The woman continued to walk past the two staff members further into the building.


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The newly opened Prince William County Child Advocacy Center, or CAC, will bring professionals involved in all aspects of child abuse cases together for a timely, coordinated response to provide child abuse victims with a safe, welcoming place where they can tell their stories.

Collaboration among Child Protective Services, Community Services, law enforcement, the County Attorney’s Office, and the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, for an encompassing approach to child abuse cases, will decrease the number of times children will need to be interviewed.


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